WEST HAM ran out comprehensive winners of this keenly fought Premier league encounter with Wolves at the London Stadium.

It is a long time since West Ham have dominated a game to quite such a degree, with the visitors limited to a couple of meaningful shots.

The first goal arrived 17 minutes into the game, with Declan Rice passing out from the back to Michail Antonio, whose tangle with Wolves’ Willy Boly saw the resulting quickly taken free-kick swept wide by Pablo Fornals to Jarrod Bowen, who cut in beating one player before expertly placing his shot in the far left-hand corner.

Ten minutes later the excellent Arthur Masuaka swung the ball in from the left and Tomas Soucek’s shot was turned wide by Wolves keeper Rui Patricio.

Soucek then had a header saved by Patricio.

Antonio was a constant problem for the Wolves defence, twisting and turning, while running at pace. It was one such manoeuvre that saw his shot pawed out by Patricio, for the incoming Pablo Fornals to fire over from a couple of yards.

Wolves sole effort of note came when a Ruben Neves shot was turned aside by Lukasz Fabianski.

The second half saw more of the same from the home side and they extended their lead inside 10 minutes. 

Antonio ran down the left and checked inside before laying the ball on for the incoming Fornals to crash his shot against the post from the edge of the penalty area. Fortunately, the ball fell to Bowen, who rammed the ball home.

The third West Ham goal came from a Aaron Creswell corner, that was met by a Soucek header but deflected in off Raul Jimenez.

The final goal came in injury-time, when a Masuaka pinpoint cross was met by substitute Sebastian Haller, who headed home across the goalkeeper.

Assistant manager Alan Irvine confirmed that David Moyes, who tested positive for Coronavirus on Tuesday, was in control of team selection and substitutions from home and was in constant contact via phone with Irvine and his team.

While Moyes was no doubt pleased with the result, he will be hoping that his captain for the night Rice is still at the club, when he returns to pitchside.

There has been much media speculation linking Rice with a move to Chelsea before the transfer window closes in a weeks time.